Wyoming Hunting News

Wyoming Offers Large Reward for Poaching CasesInformation leading to the conviction of the criminals responsible for poaching bighorn sheep from the Whiskey Mountain Herd near Dubois in November could now be worth over $5,000 to the individuals relaying the leads to authorities.

Wyoming Hunter Bags 20 Year Old Cow ElkWhen elk hunter Terry Fass shot a cow elk up the West Fork of the Smith's Fork south of Mountain View he had no idea the elk was tagged during a research project over 19 years ago.

Wyoming Recommending Against Winter Range ExceptionsWith word of requests for exceptions from big game winter range closures by natural gas companies in the Pinedale area, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is recommending the Bureau of Land Management deny the requests based on poor forage production this past summer.

Fall Turkey Licenses Still Available in WyomingThe drawing for fall turkey licenses was held Aug. 23 and licenses are leftover in all limited quota areas and will be available first-come, first-served to residents and nonresidents Sept. 15.

Hunting Cartoons

Others have offered up a sighting of roughly 2 inches high at 100 yards as a good sighting scheme. In my own experience I have come to favor a sighting of 3.5 inches high at 100 yards. This allows for the individual to hold dead-on (directly in the middle of the top and bottom) the animal out to roughly 350 yards.
Magnum calibers such as the 7mm Remington and 300 Winchester will extend this slightly. At 400 yards I hold directly on the backbone of the animal. The drop at this range allows the...